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Quite impressive how they folded. UAE bluff was called spectacularly and I think that, in the future, looking back, that event might mark the beginning of the end of their geopolit…

Someone leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. What are the chances that someone leaks the "weights" of a (near-)singularity model?

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"

Salt is engineers' kryotonite.

Most crime is conducted in fiat money.

Maybe they were on a slight up slope. If the headlights were auto leveling it will fix many of the issues people complain about.

Did he close his position or just shutdown the fund?

If you say person X thought Y was true, ask yourself if Y was true would you accept it? If the answer is no you are not ready for this kind of discussion. As for whether it's true …

Ferrari cars hold their value pretty well if you buy them slightly used. Either way, Ferrari is selling cars. Not dreams of riches.

Gamblers know the odds are stacked against them yet they end up stuck in a psychological prison within their own brain that they can't escape from even if they realize what they do…

That's one way to nerf them, force them to fight in situations they would never find themselves in. In real life, if they can't neutralize the threat in BVR they just turn around a…

Every year new engineers and enthusiasts need to be exposed to cutting edge technologies through hands-on introductions like these.

Didn't a hedge fund publish data encrypted with homomorphic encryption to run an open competition to see how can build the best trading AI. The encryption allow them to keep the se…

How much money he had when he was caught? How much you profited usually makes a difference in sentencing.

What about brain development and general intelligence. Knowledge will always have a value, or else we become slaves to the machine.

They knowingly attacked and destroyed USS Liberty in 1967 and didn't face any consequences. Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with every…

Ask Nevada.

They are very capital inefficient and still can fail during black swan events.

It's unreasonable to expect a small companies to have rogue nation states in their threat model. Apple, Microsoft, ... yeah but not a smaller business.

Or you can vote with your wallet and boycott the games. They will eventually offer a solution when nobody is watching the games.

Efficient market hypothesis proven.

The barrier of entry is much higher with commercial aviation. You can get started with a lousy car but a lousy plane will never be acceptable. The MAX fiasco could have killed Boei…

So would Google or any obscure forums. Just like fraud, the optimal amount of negativity in a technology is never zero. Gotta accept some amount of issues to maximize the benefits …

Why not just let the ads play per the social contract we have. Ask yourself, if everyone did what I do, would it ruin the service I enjoy for everyone? If the answer is yes, then s…

We shouldn't focus on the delta (the outcome) but the roots. If men take more risks and die sooner, so be it. If women get jobs that pay less and earn less, so be it. However, men …